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Speakers and Workshops

Whether you are looking for a female speaker for your women's network "lunch and learn" or you need just the right facilitator for a workshop for your top executives, we can help. Our internationally recognized voices include scholars, practitioners, authors and advocates who speak to issues of women and leadership, gender equity, diversity and organizational effectiveness in the workplace. Using their research findings and drawing on vast personal experience, our engaging, highly credible women speakers leave audience members with specific, actionable ideas and insights for increasing diversity and improving performance.

Our speakers address audiences from Fortune 100 firms, professional societies, universities and non-profit organizations in the U.S. and around the world. Sample topics include:

Leadership

• Exploring Your Leadership Potential
• Leading High Performing Teams
• Negotiating Conditions for Leadership Success
• Influence Without Authority
• Women and the "Vision Thing": Being a Leader with Vision
• Leading Change

Diversity And Gender

• Learning from Diversity: The Effects of Learning on Performance in Racially Diverse Teams
• Women and Leadership: What Does Gender Have to do With it?
• Invisible Work: Women, Power, and the 'Disappearing' of Relational Practice at Work
• Managing Diversity: Understanding the Impact of Unconscious Bias

Strategy and Finance

• Building Strategic Advantage
• Interpreting Financial Data to Strengthen Your Organization

Communication Skills

• Creating a Powerful Personal Brand
• Presence and Presentation Skills
• Creating Authority and Credibility

Career Management

• Enhancing Your Strategic Network and Relationships
• Mentoring
• Managing Your Career    

Work-Life Balance

• Gender Perspectives on Work and Personal Life
• Making Flexible Work Arrangements Usable

We are constantly developing new topics and programs, so if you don't see what you need, please let us know. To learn more about our faculty speakers and workshops, please contact Nancy Leeser via email or 617-521-3830.

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